Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-15

ian American" to tolerate for one instant
such a contradiction of the American
idea is beyond comprehension As John
Swinton has admirably said: america
is not merely earth, water and air. 1t
is the solidarity of intellectual and moral
forces. Neither is it autocratic or indi-
vidual. 1t is essentially democratic and
social 1t is not the highly developed
individuality of one person. 1t is the
concensus of the intelligence, experience
and aspirations of the entire people. |
have found this idea most profoundly
expressed in the platform of the Progress
sive Labor Party, and in the spontaneous
impulses of its rank and file. This is one
of the reasons for my acceptance of its
nomination. believe, too, that the
emancipation of the working people can
only be achieved by the working people
themselves. 1t is not only the height of
folly, therefore, but direct invitation
to destruction, for the people to depend
upon the good will of social philanthropy
lists. 1t is they who form the dominant
force in the councils of the United Labor
Party of to-day.
believe, and have 50 taught for the past
ty can only come from the gradual
| change of the wage-system into one of
integral and universal cooperation.
To shift the burden of tax is the
scheme of politician, but to abolish the
wage system is the work of an enlight-
ened people.
Taxes, when the least burdensome are
but relics of "A system where authority is
privilege and imposed; while integral
cooperation gives full scope to the spon-
taneous development of individual judy
ment and furnishes the means for its own
| administration, without the imposition
| of its own administration, without the
imposition of burdens by delegated and
| irresponsible authority. As chattel slav-
cry corrupted the master and brutalized
the slave, in no less a degree does the
wage-system affect the capitalist and his
employe. 1t has corrupted the very
fountains of morality until honesty, vir-
birthright of fools, while dishonesty styl-
ing itself shrewdness, RIGHTEOUSNESS I'M
der the guise of cleverness, hypocrisy
masquerading as philanthropy, and bru-
tally posing as science, have monopol-
lied the columns of the press and re-
ceived the approving nod of society and
the church. 1t is because the rank and
file of the Progressive Labor Party strive
to abolish the accused system that |
have the more readily accepted their
nomination. ..."
| believe also in free trade as princi-
pie, but also know that to introduce
free trade land that is the import of the
one tax idea of the United Labor Party
under the capitalistic regime would have
an effect upon the body social as would
result from the blunder of physician
who should prescribe heavy diet to
person just on the point of death from
long period of starvation. That is just
what a person of generous impulses but
ignorant of the physical organism would
do. Just that is what the large-hearted
philanthropists of the United Labor
Party are now seeking to accomplish,
simply because their feelings have over
come their reason, whenever they have
dissected the social organism. But the
rank and file of the Progressive Labor
Party are men who have dissected the
diseased and rotting structure of the
present system. They know that it is
not by shifting portion of the cancer
GUS germs that the organism can be saved.
They must be entirely eradicated by the
Instruments of industrial surgery, rather
than by the philters poultices and plas-
tiers of political demagogism. Under in
tegral cooperation, free trade and pro-
lection would become interconvert-
ible terms. The platform of the Progress
sive Labor Party contains more surgery
than quackery; for that reason also
have accepted it's nomination.
believe and have taught that private
property in land is both an injustice and
a contravention of natural right; but
also know that the ad justments necessary
to firmly and equtably establish the own
ership of land titles in the community
are not to be accomplished by any one
scheme of taxation. While admitting
that all material and forces come from
or are inseparable from the land, also
know that, without intellectual and
physical labor in association, there would
be no land values. | know, too, that
to-day the miShtiest expression of human
labor is crystalized within machinery in
its many multifariOus forms. also
know that the most powerful wealth
owners and controllers among us are not
landlords but money lords, like the Roth
chlds and machinery lords like the
Vanderbilts In fact, the wealth that
landlords have is but the reflex and
scrapngs of that which is previously
manipulated by the money and machin-
cry barons. If land values were merely
the result of the aggregation of popula-
ton, then Timbuctoo is also a promising
field of operations for the Omitted La
Dor" Party.
The burning question, the great issue
now before the American people for So